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Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Gaming Graduates And Universities

The
attraction of Washington DC is such with our leading politicians of all stripes
that any half baked idea that emerges there is seized on as a new policy or
initiative over in London.

This is part
laziness and part the craving for attention in DC. One of the
latest wheezes the Obama administration has come up in a hurry to beef up the
polls and keep in the headlines is how to fund higher education in the
future.

There are aspects of the present
that are not liked, so change is a moral imperative.

Oh no, not
one of those again, I hear. The trouble
is that the intention is to use hyped up mathematical models to do the trick
and as a way of persuading people that nothing can go wrong. Oh no, not again.

Naked
Capitalism has taken a look at this and does not like what it sees in an article which suggests that higher education for many
is more than a set of drills to get a bigger meal ticket.

Not long
but a good read which has a sympathy both for the arts generally and the notion
there is more to life than money grubbing.

Also, it admits that the individual States have a function that is
worthwhile and needs sensitive support.

But here
in the UK such retrograde notions will be shunned from any thinking.

The chances are we will have a
"new" higher education policy based on pure "economic"
function very soon.